Research Article

Analysis of Flow Evolution and Thermal Instabilities in the Near-Nozzle Region of a Free Plane Laminar Jet

Table 1

Algorithm steps.

Step Computed or updated variable By applying

1 , , and , , and
2 Temperature Equation (3)
3 Intermediate density Equation (6)
4 Intermediate velocity Equation (2)
5 Pressure correction Equation (8)
6 Pressure
7 Corrected density Equation (6)
8 Corrected velocity

The convergence is verified by the averaged L2 norm as follows: if is false, then and return to Step 2; else, and proceed to next time step (Step 1). Here and .